North Africa holds the dubious "honour" of being among the world's worst regions for gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment and violence against women.
In 2012 Moroccan teen Amina Filali's suicide made international headlines. She killed herself after being forced to marry her rapist. A full 99.3% of Egyptian women have encountered sexual harassment. Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and Morocco rank 123rd, 126th, 129th, and 133rd out of 142 in the World Economic Forum's 2014 Global Gender Gap's consideration of state resource distribution. And Morocco and Egypt are in the bottom two-fifths of the United Nations Development Program's Gender Inequality Index.
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